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Maybe soon doctors, nurses, teachers, lectures, traders, lawyers will all start carrying arms to work too.Since they suffer attack by unruly motorists why not add some strike force from the police or army or civil defence to their team when on duty instead of giving them arms.

ruudboie:
am sure very soon VIO will also carry firearms

when dat time reach, me sef go begin drive with this....
running down and over any threat in uniform!

SOON, THEY WILL ARM BRT BUS DRIVERS

Chairman....Road Safety officials DO NOT need firearms. That's the simple truth. How won't FRSC officials die when the majority of them have idio.tic attitudes
One time I was driving and approaching a highway & this blood.dy foo.l of an FRSC guy literally jumped in front of my vehicle....

harrison1234:
my
its high time i am a road safety personnel and i will till you we are nothing like the police if only you can reason with us will you will never have a problem, Road users here can testify with me have you ever had your papers complete and road safety wont let you go? unlike our sister agency the police but u will agree with me that alot of violent people will prefer to speed off rather than stop for you and we are not in the habit of going after someone in other to prevent accident, as a personnel i have been told i will be killed on the road several times by people i dont even know, i have been insulted and told how stupid i am by people am only trying to help, i have been mobbed just because the only weapon i have is my word and uniform, dont get me wrong there is a joy in doing this work when you rescue an accident victim or when you give a motorist an advice that will save his life there is this inner peace you get and that alone keeps me going. if i was not a personnel i will also be sounding like you all and personally i dont support guns in road safety but alot of personnel has died because a driver wants to be smart because he cant see a gun and you cant imagin how a nigerian will talk to you on uniform if you dont have a gun he sees you as a disturbance but i can assure you that road safety personnel wont be shooting anyhow or even put a gun at you if you can only do the right thing..............i once met a white lady being rude to me on the road because she thinks all i want to do was to extort money from her cos her nigerian husband told her so and i had to remind her that she wont act like this in her home country . so please we should all reason before we act

Very Good, soon Boyscouts will be permitted to carry Firearms too.....incompetent fools

does opc or arm robber carry??guy man just sit back enjoy the show and wail as long as u can..lastma will start by next year..u can quote me by then..RESPECT TO MANDATORS..PROPHETS OF OLD...#SINGINGOHWHATARATRACESTYLEOOOOOOO#

ruudboie:
am sure very soon VIO will also carry firearms

Agimor:
This is long due if you ask me. How will someone be in the high way without anything to protect his or herself bearing in mind how dangerous the highway maybe.

Very truth my brother.

PLEASE LET US SIGN AN ONLINE PETITION. Someone who knows how to create the platform should do so and share the link. Instead of just complaining. At least we have social MEDIA.

It's a pity a number of these officials die in active service but then allowing them to carry arms will further compound the problem as commercial drivers too will carry arms in case things become a bit heated when with the Marshal.
I have a number of them as friends but their aim is to generate revenue and not to check cars, they only stop rickety buses to collect the 200 naira and that's all. Even when then the bus is overloaded and non road worthy.
Imagine being accused of an offence for wearing sunshades because you have Apollo, after they can't find anything to charge you with

It's unfortunate that people have been killed doing their jobs but what of the farmers who have been slaughtered in the North and Middle Belt?

Why is their no response from this government on this matter...

Why is a midget in Kaduna talking about paying off criminals to murder Nigerian citizens?

Am suprise nobody is for d death of frsc personnel killed by motorist rather against d approval of firearms.wat ungreatful nigerians.

The nature of their work does not need it. What are they feeling like?

Anusiemgood:
Very truth my brother.

hmmm see made in aba English

this is simply war on defenceless motorists. very soon fines will be increased and you must pay at gun
point. then there will be no difference between road safety corp and armed robbers

Agimor:
This is long due if you ask me. How will someone be in the high way without anything to protect his or herself bearing in mind how dangerous the highway maybe.

Thats why they pitch their tent on the highway close to military check point.. If you ask me, this is totally uncalled for.. More innocent souls will join their ancestors in the name of accidental discharge

litaninja:
Chairman....Road Safety officials DO NOT nerd firearms. That's the simple truth. How won't FRSC officials die when the majority of them have idio.tic attitudes
One time I was driving and approaching a highway & this blood.dy foo.l of an FRSC guy literally jumped in front of my vehicle....

Exactly.. What they need is change of orientation.. Majority of the corps guy don't even value their lives

kingdenny:
Make everybody for nigeria kukuma dey carry arms since hundreds of Nigerian dey lose their life from police and other force recklessness.
Self defence my foot, These people can reason like tout, na wa o

my brother, if u dey road, as frsc dey. U go think alike. You read am, say 70 people died among them but I no concern you ability, I no, maybe if 2 or 1 of them nay your person, maybe u go think alike.


Am just saying.

Civil orderliness is what we need. Before you come for me. Remember, I am not frsc or their boss. I don't know anybody there.

I don't understand why we Nigerians will know d truth and refuse to say it. According to their boss, He said about 70 personnel were lost ONLY IN 2016 due to drivers' recklessness and wickedness.
Are these 70 personnel animals? Imagine the psychological trauma their families will be undergoing for loosing their loved ones, or may be their breadwinner.
I also had a friend who happened to be one of the 70 lost officers of FRSC.
Do we expect their boss or the FG to fold their arms while these people keep dieing like fouls?
It's we Nigerians (motorists) that need to check ourselves and do the right thing.
I have been to 3 European countries US inclusive, all their traffic police are armed with Pistols. Why would it be a taboo in our dear country?
Note: Any unemployed graduate today can join their organisation tomorrow.

sarrki:
THE Federal Government has approved arms-bearing for the men and officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps following upsurge in violent attacks and killing of some of its operatives during legitimate duties.

 

This is coming on the sad revelation that the Corps has lost over 70 of its personnel in 2016 alone as a result of violent attacks by motorists at the course of duties on highways.

 

Corps Marshal and Chief Executive of FRSC, Dr Boboye Oyeyemi, made this known on Friday in Abuja at the end of year management strategy session as a way to assess the Corps stewardship as well as ensuring effective service delivery.

He noted that the FRSC Establishment Act gives power to the corps to bear arms and that the Federal Government had earlier approved that, with about 5,000 personnel already undergoing training on firearms.

The Federal Government has however approved the recruitment of about 450 personnel to beef up the operational capacity of FRSC in prompt rescue operations and enforcement drive.

Oyeyemi said: “The Act gives power to the Corps to bear arms and 5,000 of our personnel have been trained. We are just waiting for the validation of the earlier approval.

“Sadly, within the one year, we have lost 70 personnel. It is sad to note that some killing and maiming of operatives, including one from a sister agency in close collaboration with the Corps were in the course of official duties.

“A recent occurrence was the happening in Talata Mafara, Zamfara State where a motorist ran into the Mobile Court in session, killing three operatives almost instantly while a Civil Defence operative died later as a result of injuries sustained in the dastardly act.

He, however, declared that the Corps would not give up, ensuring that the mandate of making Nigerian highways safer is achieved.

The Corps Marshal said he had since last year raised the alarm that some Nigerian motorists were becoming unusually violent, following rising cases of wilful killings of some of the Corps’ operatives on official duties.

He also revealed that at the end of week 47 of 2016, road crashes claimed the lives of 4,005 persons in Nigeria from 7,657 crashes as recorded by the Corps.

He, however, pointed out that the Corps has recorded 15 per cent reduction in road traffic crashes and 25 per cent in fatality rate, during the third quarter of 2016, saying this was an indication that the Corps is making progress in the campaigns.

He said: “For instance, as at September this year, we have achieved 77.19 per cent of the expectation in RTC reduction while 83.33 per cent was archived in respect of fatality rate. We will not only keep momentum but further accelerate achievement of goals,” he said.

He also disclosed that the Corps has sacked 66 personnel (10 officers and 56 marshals) on issues bothering on indiscipline, particularly inducement of operatives by motorists to evade arrest and outright extortion by operatives.

Oyeyemi added that 33 other personnel were had their ranks reduced or lost of seniority as part of disciplinary action on them.

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Engineer Babachir Lawal, reaffirmed the commitment of the Federal Government in supporting FRSC in achieving its mandate of making Nigerian roads safe for the citizens.

He said the government has accordingly approved the recruitment of 4350 personnel to boost the operational capacity of the Corps.

Lawal who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, Political and Economic Affairs, Ambassador Olukunle Gbangbose, said the Federal Government would ensure that FRSC is properly equipped for effective service delivery while calling on the top management of the Corps to begin to think out of the box in addressing challenges faced.

 


http://tribuneonlineng.com/frsc-now-bear-firearms-oyeyemi/

e don d come small small,now road safety,soon man o war,then them go leagalise arms 4 all.

Xbee007:
At least if we refuse to bribe them now they can shoot us. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

.True talk bro.

They'll soon give boys scout firearms... mumu people

harrison1234:
my
its high time i am a road safety personnel and i will till you we are nothing like the police if only you can reason with us will you will never have a problem, Road users here can testify with me have you ever had your papers complete and road safety wont let you go? unlike our sister agency the police but u will agree with me that alot of violent people will prefer to speed off rather than stop for you and we are not in the habit of going after someone in other to prevent accident, as a personnel i have been told i will be killed on the road several times by people i dont even know, i have been insulted and told how stupid i am by people am only trying to help, i have been mobbed just because the only weapon i have is my word and uniform, dont get me wrong there is a joy in doing this work when you rescue an accident victim or when you give a motorist an advice that will save his life there is this inner peace you get and that alone keeps me going. if i was not a personnel i will also be sounding like you all and personally i dont support guns in road safety but alot of personnel has died because a driver wants to be smart because he cant see a gun and you cant imagin how a nigerian will talk to you on uniform if you dont have a gun he sees you as a disturbance but i can assure you that road safety personnel wont be shooting anyhow or even put a gun at you if you can only do the right thing..............i once met a white lady being rude to me on the road because she thinks all i want to do was to extort money from her cos her nigerian husband told her so and i had to remind her that she wont act like this in her home country . so please we should all reason before we act

That is why you need a traffic police officer to work with you. You are not a crime fighting squad. So, how many FRSC officers have been killed while checking drivers license? Howmany havebbeen shot on aczive duty? How many die on active duty compared to police men? The moment you start carrying guns, that is the moment you become marked by criminal road users.
Guns would not save you, guns would mark you as a potential enemy.
If not for the fact that naija is a jagajaga country, simply taking down the car number and color you could report to the police and they take up the mater from their. But naija government like to solve problem from bottom up. They build a house before buying the land on which the house would sit

teebell999:
I don't understand why we Nigerians will know d truth and refuse to say it. According to their boss, He said about 70 personnel were lost ONLY IN 2016 due to drivers' recklessness and wickedness.
Are these 70 personnel animals? Imagine the psychological trauma their families will be undergoing for loosing their loved ones, or may be their breadwinner.
I also had a friend who happened to be one of the 70 lost officers of FRSC.
Do we expect their boss or the FG to fold their arms while these people keep dieing like fouls?
It's we Nigerians (motorists) that need to check ourselves and do the right thing.
I have been to 3 European countries US inclusive, all their traffic police are armed with Pistols. Why would it be a taboo in our dear country?
Note: Any unemployed graduate today can join their organisation tomorrow.

Oga, FRSC is not traffic police. They are not there to bust crimes or look for criminals using our roads. Plus most officers do not face threat by fire arms. Most that die were struck down during car chase. They do not face any threat that would cause them to carry arms. Worse case, pepper spray and tasser. NOT Guns.
So you are saying they should carry guns so as to shoot anyone that doesn't stop for search or?

So the firearms is to shoot the motorist or what?they are supposed to safe lives on the road please and not kill anyone...or is the man high on something?

My people perish for lack of knowledge. FRSC establishment act 2007 already empowered them to bear arms. You can find this in section 19 of the FRSC Establishment act 2007

FRSC using firearms will be more dangerous than any other military/paramilitary in Nigeria. I mean these guys overdo already.

They won't hesitate to gun down a motorist now.


Just give gatemen too firearm then.

Wetin dem wan carry guns do?

Dem wan fight boko haram too?

More mistakes from this country

If only u know what FRSC personnels pass through on the road, u will be the ones to recommend arms bearing for them.

Take it or leave it, those making unguarded comments are those guilty of hitting, manhandling, insulting or even hitting FRSC officials on the road

ShootToKill:
These Frsc guys will become uncivil animals if allowed to bear arms. They are already powerful enough.

Their primary job is to check if you have safety tools like Caution sign, Fire extinguisher, working trafficator lights, Brake lights. etc.

Now that they'll bear arms, expect them to start asking you for custom papers that has no business with them. Also expect more extra-judicial killings of motorists.

I'll suggest that they should bear arms, rather when they set up check points, an armed policeman should be with them.

Man o war and peace corps (that haven't been fully rationalized) are already asking for arms. The country is a jungle.

I really think they ought to bear arms, infact their cause has more priority & security urgency as compared to the Civil defence corps.
Why you may ask?
They do alot of highway patrols which exposes them to high risks such as
1-Bumping into heavily armed Highway robbers, escaping highway robbers or Highway Robberies in progress... many times they are forced to flee from such dangers because they are unarmed ( what a pity as they are supposed to be law enforcement officials)
2- Bumping into armed Kidnappers/Ritualists on highways *as stated above*
3- with the state of Nigerias insecurity, what happens if they cross paths with one of the insurgents on a lonely federal highway while on duty patrol e.g Boko Haram motorcade or Fulani Herdsmen interception... what do you want them to do Run As law enforcement officials how are they even contributing to National security on such occasions
4- Many instances Road Safety corps patrol border highways and come across illegal smuggling activities as uniformed people, what sort of authority can they command for acknowledgment on such occasions... na with mouth??

I truly understand how many of them get killed in service and really I think they need to be Heavily armed and heavily trained. Afterall they are law enforcement officials technically.
As the saying goes; "If you must a eat a frog, eat a fat one".

I personally experienced some Road safety officials fleeing the scene of a Highway robbery in progress once as a youth corper.... just because they were unarmed- personally, I think they should even be given Machine guns (M-4 rifles) as standard issue alongside grenades and they should be given bullet proof patrol cars as well.

Those guys face very High risks and I really admire their service despite these risks.

I don't believe arming the FRSC is the best. Why not equip them with non-lethals, such as Mace or Tazers.

Bukybabe:
So the firearms is to shoot the motorist or what?they are supposed to safe lives on the road please and not kill anyone...or is the man high on something?

Are they suppose to lose their lives while trying to save lives on d road? I wonder if you read what their boss said as 70 of them were lost only in 2016.